In answer to Paul McIntosh”s letter on May 28: We do have a fine deep-water port that is not being utilized due to Southern California-influenced regulations on logging. It”s in Eureka. What we do need is a rail system from Redding to Eureka to get our agriculture to our deep-water port and to the world.

He also states that we do not a sufficient tax base to provide for our infrastructure. Be creative. Make Interstate 5 a toll road for out-of-state trucking. Make our water that SoCal wants so bad very expensive. Southern California want us to support their outrageous projects like water tunnels so they can prosper in the desert, bullet trains that are just a boondoggle and a future legacy for our — scratch that, their — governor, and that great Chinese Bay Bridge that is already malfunctioning. We have to live under SoCal”s rules and domination until we get off our knees stand up make decisions that make sense for us.

I was in Los Angeles on business and I was asked whether I was going to stay the night or head home. I said I was going home. He tried to explain when it was a good time to leave the L.A. basin. I stopped him and told him it is always a good time to leave L.A. — some are just slower than others.